I modify the namea/dates/amounts/etc, and fire this off:
Dear DR.ONORIODE BOBOLO,
It is so good to hear from a fellow-countryman, having been raised and lived for many years in our most beautiful homeland, Nigeria. I want to send you my sincere thanks and gratitude for your kind offer of USD$25,000.000.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) for taking part in this funds transfer transaction.
However, I am a businessman too, and I make my living transferring large sums of money from and to my friends, relatives, and business associates in Nigeria. Therefore, I know that you would agree, that in order to participate in this wonderful opportunity, I must have an advance monetary commitment from you -- a good faith gesture on your part -- in order to proceed.
Therefore, I ask that you deposit just 10% ($2,500,000) of the $25M into my PayPal account as an indication that you truly possess the funds and are actually authorized to release them. Using the online PayPal service is a very convenient and secure way to transfer funds. All you need do is access the PayPal web site -- http://www.paypal.com -- open a PayPal account, deposit the funds into your new account, and then transfer the money into my existing account, which has already been set up to receive the $25M.
You only need my email address, which you already have, to transfer the funds into my account. Therefore, the complete safety of your account, as well as mine, is guaranteed and insured unconditionally. You have asked that this matter be handled with the strictest confidentiality, and I will agree to that condition, provided that the transfer takes place in a reasonable period of time, say by Friday, 5 October.
If the money has not been received by that time, I must assume that you are not making a legitimate offer, and that you might be someone other than who you say you are -- although I can tell by the exceptional language of your email, that is probably not the case. However, if that is the case, then I will be forced to embark upon a most unpleasant course of action that I would prefer not to undertake.
Because I have so many loyal friends in the Government of Nigeria and the Military, and many close ties within the Security Service where you work, it would be quite easy to locate your office and your home, as well as learn the identities of your friends and relatives.
I truly don't believe that you would want to jeopardize their health and well-being, and your own future. I will access my PayPal account on next Saturday to verify that your good-faith payment has been made. Once that takes place, we can move forward with the final transfer.
I trust that you will not disappoint me in this matter, since the consequences for non-compliance could be quite severe. I look forward with great anticipation to working with you.
Yours faithfully,
Issa Gidada, JD, MMB, President & CEO U.S./Nigeria Funds Transfer Organization Beverly Hills, CA
My favorite is to knock down one of the sections of fence in the tiger cage, and watching them attack the guests. Or, throw a tiger or lion in with the gazelles. There is a chase, a big, cartoon-style cloud of dust, then a happy tiger.
I dig Zoo Tycoon, too. Its fun trying to get everything just right, and then suddenly a Thompson's Gazelle gets sick and you gotta cure him before guests complain, and other animals get unhappy. Good stuff.
Well, since the pole only moves a bit each year, the swallows headed toward San Juan Capistrano will probably end up in the Bario or someplace. No big deal.
later i the plane i notice the lady in front of me is knitting. to those of you who don't have grandmas, knitting needs are about a foot long huge needles. back to the music industry, WHATEVER they do to try to stop music distribution, an old lady with knitting needles will always get through
Good lord, that lady needs to be stopped, she might knit an Afghan!
Well, at least get it right...dug this off the web
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the entre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a
flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?"
"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."
Didnt stop idiot parents from suing Honda over the 3 wheel ATV's they bought for their kids, who then went out, unhelmeted and untrained, and got themselves hurt on them.
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And a pretty weak one at that...oy...
Well, considering 99% of the music^Wcrap coming out of artists is identical, I would say no.
And if you shone the light just past him, maybe we'd get that neat light-bending effect that astronomers use to find planets.
That's not oil in Uranus, that's vaseline...
I modify the namea/dates/amounts/etc, and fire this off:
Dear DR.ONORIODE BOBOLO,
It is so good to hear from a fellow-countryman, having been raised and lived for many years in our most beautiful homeland, Nigeria. I want to send you my sincere thanks and gratitude for your kind offer of USD$25,000.000.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) for taking part in this funds transfer transaction.
However, I am a businessman too, and I make my living transferring large sums of money from and to my friends, relatives, and business associates in Nigeria. Therefore, I know that you would agree, that in order to participate in this wonderful opportunity, I must have an advance monetary commitment from you -- a good faith gesture on your part -- in order to proceed.
Therefore, I ask that you deposit just 10% ($2,500,000) of the $25M into my PayPal account as an indication that you truly possess the funds and are actually authorized to release them. Using the online PayPal service is a very convenient and secure way to transfer funds. All you need do is access the PayPal web site -- http://www.paypal.com -- open a PayPal account, deposit the funds into your new account, and then transfer the money into my existing account, which has already been set up to receive the $25M.
You only need my email address, which you already have, to transfer the funds into my account. Therefore, the complete safety of your account, as well as mine, is guaranteed and insured unconditionally. You have asked that this matter be handled with the strictest confidentiality, and I will agree to that condition, provided that the transfer takes place in a reasonable period of time, say by Friday, 5 October.
If the money has not been received by that time, I must assume that you are not making a legitimate offer, and that you might be someone other than who you say you are -- although I can tell by the exceptional language of your email, that is probably not the case. However, if that is the case, then I will be forced to embark upon a most unpleasant course of action that I would prefer not to undertake.
Because I have so many loyal friends in the Government of Nigeria and the Military, and many close ties within the Security Service where you work, it would be quite easy to locate your office and your home, as well as learn the identities of your friends and relatives.
I truly don't believe that you would want to jeopardize their health and well-being, and your own future. I will access my PayPal account on next Saturday to verify that your good-faith payment has been made. Once that takes place, we can move forward with the final transfer.
I trust that you will not disappoint me in this matter, since the consequences for non-compliance could be quite severe. I look forward with great anticipation to working with you.
Yours faithfully,
Issa Gidada, JD, MMB,
President & CEO
U.S./Nigeria Funds Transfer Organization
Beverly Hills, CA
My favorite is to knock down one of the sections of fence in the tiger cage, and watching them attack the guests. Or, throw a tiger or lion in with the gazelles. There is a chase, a big, cartoon-style cloud of dust, then a happy tiger.
I dig Zoo Tycoon, too. Its fun trying to get everything just right, and then suddenly a Thompson's Gazelle gets sick and you gotta cure him before guests complain, and other animals get unhappy. Good stuff.
/. needs some new moderation categories, like -1 Wacko, or -1 Crackpot.
Audiophiles listen to their equipment, the rest of us listen to our music.
Or Johnny 5!
Well, since the pole only moves a bit each year, the swallows headed toward San Juan Capistrano will probably end up in the Bario or someplace. No big deal.
Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Highway Construction
Soil your undies, perhaps?
...when she said "Beige, I think I'll paint the ceiling beige..."
I thought that your antenna size was related to the size of your feet?
Good lord, that lady needs to be stopped, she might knit an Afghan!
Aren't all of her songs the same?
Who needs to use mind tricks on them, they seem to fall down all on their own just fine.
You mean you dont? How'd we miss you in the last sweep of your area?
Well, at least get it right...dug this off the web A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the entre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."
Well, when I'm wearing my beer goggles, most women are pretty attractive...
Does that mean that 17th century punishments apply? Beheading? Burning at the stake?
But we already know this one, the Wise Old Owl showed us. It's three!
One...two-hooo...three crunch three
Boo Hoo
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